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Mino - Fly

 

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Artist: Mino

Title: Fly

Label: Transonic

Date: 2002

 

Track listing:

 

01. Dancing With The Dragon

02. Cyber Sex

03. Supernatural

04. Capsulated

05. Manushki

06. Contagious

07. Fly

08. Psychoacoustica

09. Dancing With The Dragon (Down Tempo Rmx)

 

Review:

 

The long awaited Mino-album has finally arrived. Mino Vaknin has burned our

dancefloors with impressive darksounding stompers for some time now and this

album is no exception. The whole album is packed with dark noises, some

guitartracks and percussion.It starts off with a nice stomping track called '

Dancing With The Dragon' and sends most of us indeed of to the dancefloor. The

second track Cyber Sex has some nice layers and production, I had my mouth

open the first time I heard it. Dominant in this song are the tweaking and the

bassline, nicely packed in some psychedelic mayhem. 'Supernatural' starts of

with a nice voice sample and a rolling bassline that continues all through the

song, certainly one of the better songs in this pack I'd say. It's kinda

repetitive but in the end its captivating and stomping( BTW Nice melody in the

end, reminds me a bit of Fractal Glider...somehow). Now 'Capsulated' has a

quite different thing going for it, a dark intro let's us enter a steady,

wobbly song where all the basics of psychedelica are being forced to breathe

in the same room. And luckily, they do....the only thing I have against this

is the melody at the end ( I can't remember which song it comes from, but I

know I've heard it b4....). Manushki has a nice nametag to it and enforces the

stomperitism ( or something like that) on this album. Many people would call

the guitarsequences a shame and I admit I thought the same thing in the

beginning, but now they seem to sound better.I do think the guitars are a bit

too loud, but no floorgrinder by nature would mind I guess. The best part of

this song comes in the end, where a nice sequence enters the aural landscape

and completes the song. All you guitarhaters BEWARE, there's another guitar

track on this one, it's called Contagious and is up next. Well, it starts off

with a guitar... ( guess I scared some people off now). This is the most

techno-orientated song, which isn't a bad thing I guess. This song has a lot

going for it, dark atmosphere, techno'y style, psychedelica thrown in from all

angles and a nice lead ...... b4 the guitar comes in. ( there I threw some

die-hard guitarhaters back). Well enough contagious behavior, 'Fly' is up

next, which I think is the best... Why? ... Well just listen... ( I guess

no-one will read this far anyway). Psychoacoustica is the worst track IMHO, it

leaves a lot to be desired...it has a nice intro to it I must say, but it

doesn't really captivate me, maybe after a few more listens it would... ok NO

COMMENT on that song then..hehe. The last song is another jewel, downtempo

remix of ' Dancing With The Dragon'. Those who fear it's just song number one

played slowly, its NOT. It has some elements of song 1 and thats it. It

completely stands on it's own and I think Miko has done a great job there.

Overall, It's one of those albums you just hate or love I guess,.,,, and I

love it... 9/10

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Guest [Anonymous]

This album features some real stormers, my

favorite is Dancing With the Dragon. maybe I just need to dig in deeper into

it, to get my full view of it. Mino, you are doing a great job, keep it up ! :)

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Guest Xymaths

Well my opinion is that it is way too percussive, I mean there are some tasty

Tim Shuldt melodies in here BUT the production sux, the only thing you can

here is the percussion which makes it sound all like Chrome-Etnica. Could have

been a great release. Don't dig those 97/98 Sunproject guitars either. 6.5 /10

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Guest [Anonymous]

hrmm....the mastering on this album wasn´t nearly as good as the last

album...and the trax were not even close to as good as in the last album...

 

some kool moods and grooves but that´s it...

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  • 3 months later...
Guest Fergus

Sorry my review was a typical kneejerk reaction! After having given this a few

decent listens I can say that tracks 4,5,6 are absolute killers- good one

Mino!!

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  • 3 weeks later...

Not a bad album but not even that good too...I was expecting a bit more

stronger progression in tracks and some of them do seem to get a bit too

monotonous...Anyway, there are some good tracks : SUPERNATURAL ( ! ),

CAPSULATED, PSYCHOACUSTICA, DANCING WITH DRAGON...6.5/10

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